Prof. Armando Menezes (1902-1983)

Menezes who was not only an academic, a teacher, A civil servant and a Goan, But a poet and a critic, A man of vast learning, dispersed meditations And poetic parleys who was Born at Sao Mathias, Divar, Goa, in 1902, After having a tryst with Portuguese, Menezes graduated from St. Xavier's College, Bombay, in 1924 Obtaining the Duke of Edinborough Scholarship and Chancellor's Gold Medal And thereafter taught at the alma mater for sometime To work as Professor and the HOD of English, Later joined the Bombay Educational Service As Professor of English at the Karnatak College, Dharwad And finally rose up to the post of the Principal, Was the first Head and Chairman of the Deptt. Of English Of Dharwad Univ. And was appointed the Undersecretary of Education By the Bombay State.